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Subject: Re: [RFC] helping smart-http/stateless-rpc fetch race
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> A separate option would allow admins to let their clients ask to fetch
> 4bc5fbf (that is v0.99~2) even if that commit is not at the tip of any ref
> if they choose to. That is what (1) is about, and people who do not want
> a separate option needs to argue that it is an unnecessary "feature".

By the way, I personally do not think it is necessary, but as long timers
on the list may recall, this has come up on the list for a few times.